Worship Goes Big-Screen and Hi-Fi, With Direct-Deposit Tithing - washingtonpost.com

At First Baptist Church of Glenarden in Prince George's County, parishioners who don't make it to church on time are directed to an overflow room to watch the Sunday service on a huge projection screen. If they can't make it to church at all, they can catch the service online, anytime.Worship Goes Big-Screen and Hi-Fi, With Direct-Deposit Tithing - washingtonpost.com

The Economies of Virtual Worlds

It's an emerging marketplace, worth billions of dollars, and many Americans don't even know it exists. In virtual worlds like "Second Life" or "World of Warcraft," members buy and sell everything from clothes to real estate for their online selves. The goods may not be "real" but the money often is. Join Kojo for a tour of virtual economies and explore the debate over whether they should be more tightly regulated.
WAMU 88.5 FM American University Radio - The Kojo Nnamdi Show for Tuesday September 25, 2007

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Further Improvements Needed to Identify and Oversee Poorly Planned and Performing Projects

OMB and federal agencies have identified approximately 227 IT projects—totaling at least $10.4 billion in expenditures for fiscal year 2008—as being poorly planned (on the Management Watch List), poorly performing (on the High Risk List with performance shortfalls), or both.

Lawmaker suggests cutting losses on mismanaged IT projects (9/20/07) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

Lawmaker suggests cutting losses on mismanaged IT projects (9/20/07) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com: "Some poorly performing and overly expensive technology projects should be scrapped, even if that means the government incurs a major financial loss, the chairman of a Senate panel investigating the cost of federal IT systems said Thursday."

SAP's New Model: Think Smaller - WSJ.com

German technology giant SAP AG became a leading software player by selling the programming equivalent of a Mercedes-Benz -- large, expensive and engineering-heavy applications that help the world's biggest businesses manage everything from payroll to manufacturing and billing.

[Note: subscription required. Check to see if your company has a corporate WSJ subscription]
SAP's New Model: Think Smaller - WSJ.com

Class of 2007 at the CIO University Graduation

(2008 hang in there-you will be there before you know it!)

Webinar: TruePlanning 2007 Rollout Overview, Sept 13

Dear Cost & Performance Management Professionals:

Join PRICE Systems for a 45-Minute Lunch & Learn Webinar, "TruePlanning 2007 Rollout Overview", Thursday, September 13, 2007 from 12:00 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time. Speakers include PRICE Systems cost management experts.

This Webinar will introduce you to the new PRICE TruePlanning® toolset now available to our customer's worldwide. TruePlanning is the new generation of cost estimating framework and family of models developed to provide a fully integrated System-of-Systems estimating capability. During this session you will be introduced to the full suite of cost models, understand the benefits of these powerful tools, as well as how to apply them to your project to aid in program success. Lunch and Learns are presented from a technical perspective; this will NOT be a sales pitch.

"Lunch and Learn" educational Webinars address Program Affordability Management topics that our customers feel are vitally important to today's procurement, cost management, and program management professionals.

REGISTER TODAY!
http://ipost.com/rd/9z1zg31v0bisdgeegbkd8bot72nqqah91chm3q60f4o

Upon registration, you will be emailed a dial in number for the audio and a link to Microsoft's Live Meeting for the web presentation. If you have trouble with your organizations firewall, we will send you the presentation in advance; you can then follow along with the audio.

NPR : Indian Software Firm to Outsource to U.S.

[Ed. note: TECHMAN 06 visited Wipro in Bangalore.]

Morning Edition, September 6, 2007 · Indian software firm Wipro plans to open a big software design center in Atlanta. The Bangalore, India-based firm expects to hire around 500 computer programmers in the next three years. It's a curious turnabout from the much more familiar story: a U.S. software company creating jobs in India.NPR : Indian Software Firm to Outsource to U.S.

Hardcopy...

Websites and online columns are great for seeing the latest headlines, but I really like to kick back with hardcopy magazines for in-depth reading. Here's a list of the free subscription magazines that I think are worth my time:

CIO Decisions: http://searchcio.techtarget.com/
CIO: http://www.cio.com
CSO - The Resource for Security Executives: http://www.csoonline.com
Oracle Magazine: http://www.oracle.com/oramag/index.html
Information Security: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/
Government Health IT: http://governmenthealthit.com
SC Magazine: http://www.scmagazineus.com

What magazines are on your list?

Business Alliance of George Mason University

The Business Alliance connects business executives with each other and with faculty experts, students and leaders at George Mason University through a variety of networking events, partnership activities and volunteer opportunities which benefit the region's business community and George Mason University through the exchange of ideas and expertise. In addition the corporate members of the Business Alliance Board listed above, a number of administrators from the university are appointed to the Business Alliance Board of Directors each year by George Mason University President Alan Merten. More information is available online at www.businessalliance.org

Marketplace: Traffic and corruption in New Delhi

India's accident rate is one of the worst: over 80,000 traffic-related deaths a year. In New Delhi, it's so bad the High Court increased fines 50%, but the roots of the problem go much deeper. Miranda Kennedy reports.Marketplace: Traffic and corruption in New Delhi

Marketplace: No Office party for Microsoft

It may seem Microsoft has already taken over the world. But the software maker has taken a hit from a computing group in Switzerland. Its members declined to designate a key Microsoft product as an international standard. Stephen Beard reports. Marketplace: No Office party for Microsoft

For Montana Sect, Cellphones Send Mixed Message - WSJ.com

MARTINSDALE, Mont. -- Elsie Wipf lives a simple life, picking vegetables, sewing clothes for her brothers and sisters and butchering chickens. She also goes to church every day and knits slippers in her spare time.

That is, when she isn't sending her friends text messages, like "btw how r u 2 day."
For Montana Sect, Cellphones Send Mixed Message - WSJ.com

Graduate Programs Annual Picnic

Join in the fun and network with the MBA, ExecutiveMBA and MS in Accounting
students and alumni -

When: September 22, 2007
Where: Hemlock Overlook, 13220 Yates Ford Road, Clifton, VA
Time: 4 - 10 p.m. (campfire starts at 9:00 p.m.)

Click HERE
HERE to RSVP.
(We do need the RSVP for a food head-count)

Why not make this a class reunion opportunity for your Techman class???? :-)

Clodagh